Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is a poem recited by the Mad Hatter in of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!

The Hatter is interrupted in his recitation by the Dormouse. "The Bat" was the nickname of Professor Bartholomew Price, one of the Dons at Oxford, a former teacher of Carroll's and well known to Alice Liddell's family.

In Robert W. Chambers's children's book, Orchard-land (1903), the poem is partially quoted, in the seventh chapter titled ‘Tha Bat’ and the creature reveals his dislike of being associated with a flying tea tray.

The poem was sung in Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland film. In it, the Dormouse drowsily recited it at the tea party. The poem was later sung again at Alice's trial, and taken down as "important" evidence.

It was sung in the 1970s version of Zoom and In the 1990s version of zoom it was sung due to a request sent in from a viewer who saw the 70s version.

On the 1974 Steeleye Span album 'Now We Are Six', track 9 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' has someone singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat' quietly in the left audio track, and being very amused by themselves.

In the 1960s Batman series, Batman and a woman sing it while trapped in vases and pebbles being dropped on them in a version of the "Chinese water torture".

The line "Like a teatray in the sky" is used in a 1968 song by The Move entitled "Cherry Blossom Clinic", about a mental patient.

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